Efficiency cores, or E-Cores for short, sit front and center in Intel’s consumer CPU strategy. The company introduced E-Cores to its mainstream lineup in Alder Lake, where they sat alongside higher performance P-Cores to improve multithreaded performance while keeping the design area-efficient. Raptor Lake then took the hybrid strategy further, with flagship SKUs featuring twice as many E-Cores as P-Cores. Meteor Lake, Intel’s current mobile offering, doubles down on E-Cores. Its E-Cores move to...